Fashion DIET: "Make-Do and Mend" – Repairing and Upcycling as Cultural Phenomena (PDF)

The focus of this lesson is on the concept of mending clothes as a way of consciously consuming clothes, which preserves their value, raises awareness of their worth and prevents new purchases. This appears in the context of the lack of raw materials and finished goods with different cultural references and in connection with the abundance of fast fashion, whose downsides are becoming increasingly apparent. The lesson has five modules: 1) “Make-Do and Mend”, 2) Abundance! – The dark side of fast fashion, 3) I’ll make something out of it – Upcycling, 4) Stuffing and visual mending and 5) And what does it look like somewhere else? – Boro and Sashiko from Japan.